In the second part of his Nokia E61i review Ewan covers the information side of things - Messaging , Web and the PIM applications. It includes a look at the push email functionality available with Mail for Exchange.
Read on in the full article.
Messaging, Wen and PIM on the E61i
I think that push-email services are just a marketing scam. Email cannot be considered urgent, why not calling or sending an SMS or even MMS instead? I use my email at work only for large attachments and none are "urgent".
depends on your work. As a journalist, for example, email is used often more like instant-messaging with mails flowing in and out every minute.
"I think that push-email services are just a marketing scam. Email cannot be considered urgent, why not calling or sending an SMS or even MMS instead?"
I agree, most people who use push email or blackberries probably don't need to.
Many people don't even realise that you can get POP email and webmail on practically every new phone, even the cheapie $100 ones. You get journalists very often using a phrase like "blackberry made email mobile"... no it didn't, it made push email mobile. If you only want to check email when you have time to read it, almost any phone will do.
Justwords is also right though that in a few key professions push email is essential, but I'd venture a guess that only a very small percentage of the total push email userbase actually belong to one of these professions.
Instead of push email, why not refreshing emails when you need them or set an auto refresh rate of 5 minutes for example? It's definitely cheaper, especially when you use a flat rate traffic subscription.
I have my mail forwarded to a free IMAP account. The E61i can be set to check it every 5 minutes. It's as good as having true "push" e-mail for me.
Push email has a feel of convenience, but really MS exchange server is great because all is sync'd without having to connect the cable or think about syncing. That's the best part for me. I gave up BB after MS Exchange.
It definitely depends on your line of work. Where I work, after people send an e-mail or fax, they will call the recipient by phone and tell them to check their message. And before we switched to Gmail to handle our corporate e-mail, the caller would actually stay online and ask the recipient to open the mail to make sure it's readable. It's always that urgent...
Does anyone know whether the calendar synchronisation via M4E in S60 synchronises all calendar items, including to-dos?
I post this question as blackberry connect for N9500 does not... 😞
best regards,
borys
BDS wrote:Does anyone know whether the calendar synchronisation via M4E in S60 synchronises all calendar items, including to-dos?I post this question as blackberry connect for N9500 does not... 😞
best regards,
borys
Not sure, but you can try emoze. (www.emoze.com)